Readings

It looked like another good year for the marriage—movie franchises based on comic book superheroes raked in billions of dollars more for Hollywood. Celluloid success, however, hasn’t rescued the comics industry from its death throes. What will?

Dave Van Ronk, the inspiration behind the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, was the king of the Greenwich Village folk scene. That may be why no one’s heard of him.

This week, Al Goldstein—the oversized pornographer with the oversized mouth and libido—died of renal failure. Our writer tracks the Screw founder from his humble, filthy beginnings to his deathbed in Brooklyn, days before he passed.